[Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

[Jon Davis]

If you're interested in borrowing the Wikinews "share" links, the template
in question is:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks

-Jon

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 02:31, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/2011, at 20:21, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>
> wrote:
>
> > User:HalanTul from the Sakha Wikipedia asked me to ask about this here.
> >
> > The writers of the Sakha Wikipedia want to add icons to "share in
> > Facebook/Twitter/etc" to some articles to promote the project, but
> > they are concerned about the legal and ideological implications of
> > such a move: Doesn't putting the logo of a commercial company right in
> > the article violate the no-advertising principle?
> >
> > --
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > "We're living in pieces,
> >  I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
> >
> Wikinews has used these kinds of buttons for quite a while. They are placed
> in a "share this" box at the bottom of every article. See, for example,
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egyptian_president_will_not_seek_re-election_in_September_after_protests
>
> For a while equivalent buttons were also active on Commons but they were
> turned off as it was unclear they had community support. I'm not aware of
> any Wikipedia edition that has used them though.
>
> -Liam
>
> Sent from my phone.
> Wittylama.com/blog
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